Unicode System Font, what is the best font to replace lcfont Options

[bolbit]

The default font for the sytem is "ldfont" in the C1000. Sharp PIM and texte editor use this font and i want to be able to use the accentuated characters (mainly for the mail soft) . i have tried to backup lcfont and create symbolic links with the verdana font, but there is a issue when the screen is rotated ...

is there a unicode font that match the lcfont characteristic (same size avaible, rotation ok, ...)

thanks,

[Meanie]

The default font for the sytem is "ldfont" in the C1000. Sharp PIM and texte editor use this font and i want to be able to use the accentuated characters (mainly for the mail soft) . i have tried to backup lcfont and create symbolic links with the verdana font, but there is a issue when the screen is rotated ...

is there a unicode font that match the lcfont characteristic (same size avaible, rotation ok, ...)

thanks,

if you install the verdana package i built, it handles the rotation in any direction

have a look at my website, there is a link to the package

[bolbit]

Thanks, i have read your site very often and installed a verdana font that i have found somewhere (the pico font verdana was not eazy to find). i will download yours.
NOTE : most of the sharp soft seems to use in fact the helvetica font not the lcfont. lcfont seems to be use by kconsole and some other but few.

[bolbit]

must be blind : didn't see a link to your font. it is may to late. is it suppose to be in the font chapter of the "bible" :-).

[Meanie]

must be blind : didn't see a link to your font. it is may to late. is it suppose to be in the font chapter of the "bible" :-).

oops, I seem to have forgotten to provide a link to the package. i will rectify that in the next update of the site.

[bolbit]

Thank you one more time now it's woking!.
PS : To switch from helvetica->verdana is the only solution is to remove the existing symb link and create new ones for helvetica->verdana ?? is there a way to tell Qtopia to use verdana from a configuration file, somewhere ?

[bam]

ahhh, thats my 50K doller question.

btw, you changed the font in your qtopia, how. Give some details.

[bolbit]

1-install verdana font from the "bible" (meanie's site)

2-Move the helvetiva*.* files from /home/QtPalmtop/lib/font somewhere as a backup

3 - link (ln -s) all the helvetica*.* font to the verdana_*.* font.

I'm not a linux guru, so i have done this one by one using a script :

the script looks like :

CODE

#!/bin/sh
ln -s verdana_100_50.qpf helvetica_100_50.qpf
ln -s verdana_100_50_t10.qpf helvetica_100_50_t10.qpf
ln -s verdana_100_50_t15.qpf helvetica_100_50_t15.qpf
ln -s verdana_100_50_t5.qpf helvetica_100_50_t5.qpf
ln -s verdana_100_50i.qpf helvetica_100_50i.qpf
...

i have attached it, if it could be usefull . Maybe all theses links could be done with only one instruction..?

Attached File(s)

 listverdana.zip ( 658bytes ) Number of downloads: 26

 

[bam]

cool, any other fonts actually fit the bill for a good replacement?

[Meanie]

CODE

#!/bin/sh
cd /home/QtPalmtop/lib/fonts
for i in 'ls verdana*'
do
 ln -s $i helvetica_'echo $i|cut -d_ -f2-'
done

or in one line:
for i in 'ls verdana*';do ln -s $i helvetica_'echo $i|cut -d_ -f2-';done

[rob_figlabs]

I found that the deja vu fonts work very well on the Zaurus:
Dejavu sourceforge

I was after a font that could display the Euro natively. I removed lcfont and helvetica and replaced them with dejavu sans and dejavu mono. I had to rename the dejavu serif fonts otherwise they were picked up as the default OS font - which didn't look as nice as the sans serif font.

These fonts are higher resolution than lcfont and look really sharp (excuse the pun).

[Hrw]

DejaVu will be also used in next OZ/Familiar as base font in OPIE.

BTW - does SharpROM does not allow to select default font? All those renames, symlinks...

[bam]

I found that the deja vu fonts work very well on the Zaurus:
Dejavu sourceforge

I was after a font that could display the Euro natively. I removed lcfont and helvetica and replaced them with dejavu sans and dejavu mono. I had to rename the dejavu serif  fonts otherwise they were picked up as the default OS font - which didn't look as nice as the sans serif font.

These fonts are higher resolution than lcfont and look really sharp (excuse the pun).

exact instructions? I found ttf but not qpf?

Thanks
Bam

[bolbit]

thank meanie for the "one line instruction".
I will try the dejavu font too, if there is a way to get the qpf (cf last bam message).

[bam]

actually found the qpf files from the oz feed, thanks guys Perhaps this should be included in the how to doc's?